U+8912 "褒" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
褒
U+8912 "褒" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to praise," "to honor," or "to commend," and it also carries connotations of "generous" or "ample" in certain contexts. It is composed of the clothing radical 衣 on the outside, suggesting wrapping or covering, and a phonetic component that hints at its pronunciation in Mandarin as "bāo." Historically, this character appears in classical Chinese texts to denote expressions of praise or bestowal of honors, and it remains in modern usage in both Chinese and Japanese, often appearing in words like 褒賞 (reward or commendation) or 褒める (to praise in Japanese).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8912 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 褒 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 褒 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xA4 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8912 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008912 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8912 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BDC7 |
| kCCCII | 215772 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6E70 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6E70 |
| kCangjie | YODV |
| kCantonese | bou1 |
| kCihaiT | 1218.504 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1588.170 |
| kDefinition | praise, commend, honor, cite |
| kEACC | 215772 |
| kFanqie | 博毛 |
| kFenn | 758H |
| kFennIndex | 386.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0073.2 |
| kGB0 | 1693 |
| kGB1 | 1693 |
| kHangul | 포:0N |
| kHanYu | 53101.090 |
| kHKGlyph | 3724 |
| kIICore | AGTJKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1588.170 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53101.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1121.020 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-307D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BDC7 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4B2B |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F1D1 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7866 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6E70 |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8F76 |
| kJapanese | ホウ ブ ほめる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:3280 |
| kJapaneseKun | HOMERU |
| kJapaneseOn | HOU |
| kJis0 | 4311 |
| kKangXi | 1121.020 |
| kKorean | PHO |
| kLau | 114 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5988 |
| kMandarin | bāo |
| kMatthews | 4951 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2404 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024064 MJ024064:E0101 MJ024065:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 34437 34437:E0101 |
| kNelson | 0331 |
| kPhonetic | 1068 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3673+145.6.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 145.9 |
| kSBGY | 157.19 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+8943<kHKGlyph,kLau,kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 632.14 16.20 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | bāo粵bou1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 9181 |
| kTang | bɑu |
| kTGHZ2013 | 012.090:bāo |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 323:073 |
| kXHC1983 | 0035.110:bāo |